Maxell CD-340 CD Lens Cleaner

by Maxell

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.5 x 1 inches ; 4.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000001OM5
• Item model number: 190048
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #26 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Accessories > Cleaning & Repair
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Maxell offers a wide range of storage products and accessories delivering the highest quality available. To achieve this goal, Maxell has spent the last 30 years focusing all its research and development strengths on creating a long list of innovative solutions for customers. Today, consumers and professionals all over the world reach for the Maxell name when they want a quality product they can trust. Maxell offers a complete line of innovative CD and DVD care and maintenance items designed specifically to help care for the products of today and the future.

Product Description

Maxell CD-340 CD Lens Cleaner 190048 Cleaning Kits

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have to admit, I was skeptical, November 25, 2006

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Deanokat (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxell CD-340 CD Lens Cleaner (Electronics)

My 2002 Pontiac Montana's CD player started acting up a few months ago. Almost every time I put a CD in, the player would spit it back out and the display would say "CHECK CD." After 3 or 4 tries, the player would finally accept the CD. But it sure was frustrating. So I stopped at the dealership and inquired about this problem. The first thing the service advisor suggested was to try a CD lens cleaner. I had never used one of these in my life. And I've had CD players since 1984. But when I went to my brother-in-law's house for Thanksgiving, he had just purchased this same identical CD lens cleaner at the local Meijer store. I asked him if I could try it out in my car's CD player and he gladly obliged. Well, after one cleaning, so far the CD player hasn't rejected any of my CDs. And we drove back home after Thanksgiving...almost 300 miles...and played many CDs. So, for now at least, I'm convinced. I came right home and ordered this Maxell CD lens cleaner for myself. I don't know if I'd feel comfortable enough to try it in my Mac desktop or PowerBook...but I think I'd feel safe using it in my Sony CD player or PlayStation. In fact, the PS2 will be the first device to get cleaned when this arrives. It's been rejecting discs, too. Maybe the lens is just gunked up with dust. Anyways...it fixed my car CD player trouble and saved me a lot of money that the dealership would've charged me to service the darn thing. I'd recommend it highly.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A CD cleaner but, unfortunately, not its savior, June 21, 2010

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Larry VanDeSande - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxell CD-340 CD Lens Cleaner (Electronics)

I've used the maxell CD-340 cleaner in my car and home players (two of them -- one a recorder where I've cleaned its mirror too) for 10 years and they've never failed. These things don't do much; you stick it in, listen to some jingoism and a pleasing voice on the first track, then advance to the cleaning track and wait for 20 seconds while a continuous beep ensures you turn the volume way down. Afterward, your lens is clean. That's all there is to it.

Why does the lens have to be cleaned? I can't answer that since I've never seen one. In the cassette era, I bought a clumsy plug-in electrical wand with a metal probe that I had to physically touch to my recording and playback heads (on reel-to-reel players too) to demagnitize them. Apparently all that tape going through left some kind of magnetic charge behind that would foul the signal at some point. It's questionable whether the gadget I owned ever actually worked, unlike this product, which works every time.

There's no such issue with the digital CD lens cleaner. This disk has some encoded voice commands and about a dozen little brushes the protrude about 1/8 of an inch from the surface of the disk. I guess the disk spins and the brushes rub off the bad stuff from the CD lens. If there's another explanation, I'd like to hear it. It works every time.

Unfortunately, the thing this product won't do is eliminate age from cranky car CD players. I've owned a couple GM models where the player had to be replaced and the player in my 2006 Chevy Malibu is becoming increasingly wearisome. It has a habit of failing to play disks that are thicker than the norm. You'd think there would be a standard in the digital industry but there is not. Sometime spinning my maxell CD-340 arrests this behavior but typically it does not. I usually have to burn myself a homemade disk on a maxell CD-R blank disk Maxell 32x CD-R For Music - 30 Spindle to get the recalcitrant player to spin the music.

As for the cleaner, it works in spades every time. Buy with confidence for that purpose.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, January 6, 2011

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R. Moenaert "Richie" (Redford, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxell CD-340 CD Lens Cleaner (Electronics)

I was ready to purchase a new CD Player because the one I had wouldn't recognize any CD/DVD's. I read quite a few of

the reviews and based on price and reviews I decided on this one. I installed this cleaner into the player and followed

the instructions and in less than a minute everything was working like new. Great product.